People hunted. People wrote songs. Not singing the song won't change the past. People still hunt foxes today ( although most of them, even fifty years ago would not have been allowed near a hunt because they would not be sociially acceptable enough) Kennelmasters still kill perfectly healthy hounds at about six years old because they've lost that youthful vigour. Each year over thirty thousand new born bitches are crushed under the Kennelman's heel because, as females, they are not suitable for pack hunting. The problem is, does a song about Hunting two centuries ago give tacet support to contemporary hunters? I think it comes down to irony. I heard a man last year sing "John Peel" with a tone of scathing contempt. Familiar words and tune but with a bit of genius in the delivery it became one of the best anti-hunting songs I have heard.